Es wird eine Zeit kommen, in der man glaubt, dass alles zu Ende ist. Das wird der Anfang sein.
No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to it ride the new trails – Kilkenny.
He was realizing how cheap are the principles for which we do not have to fight, how easy it is to establish codes when all the while our freedom to talk had been fought and bled for by others.
Don’t go for that gun,” I said quietly. “I want you tried in a court of law, not dead on this floor.
The buzzard could not reason but he knew the patterns that led to food. His entire life was built upon such fragments of knowledge and he knew that where such groups of men rode, death rode with them.
My future is one I must make myself.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.
Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.
Mountains should not be judged by altitude.
A ship does not sail with yesterday’s wind.
One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.
There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it’s hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.
Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.
Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.